Excerpt from Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America, Vol. 2 of 2: Embracing History, Statesmanship, Naval and Military Life, Philosophy, the Drama, Science, Literature, and Art A sketch originally contributed to a London periodical by Mr. Shiel, the eminent Irish barrister and politician. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America, Vol. 1 of 2: Embracing History, Statesmanship, Naval and Military Life, Philosophy, the Drama, Science, Literature and Art, With Biographies The various modes of illustrious achievement. All the great nations OF europe supply their men of thought and action, their great sovereigns, their founders of governments, their distinguished military Chieftains, their statesmen, their philanthropists, their scientific discoverers, their poets and artists. The new birth of italy is exhibited in the record of Cavour, Garibaldi, and Victor Emanuel, and the early rule of Pope Pius; france has her Marie Antoinette, her Charlotte Corday, her Napoleons, her Thiers; russia, her Alexander, with his grand work of national reform germany emerges from the old revolution with her Goethe, Schiller, Humboldt, to enter upon the empire with King William, Bismarck and Von Moltke england is illustrated from the days of Johnson to those of Dickens and Tennyson in literature; she has her statesmen in Bright, Cobden and Gladstone; her warriors on sea and land in Nelson and Wellington; her philanthropists of both sexes from Wilberforce to Florence Nightingale; her race of female novelists from Jane Austen to Charlotte Bronte; her inventors in such examples as Stephenson and Faraday; scotland has her Burns, Scott and Livingstone; ireland her Burke, Goldsmith, Edge worth, Curran, Grattan, and O'connell; while in the united states, all of the classes we have alluded to are represented in Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln, Grant, Webster, Fulton, Morse, Peabody, Bryant and others of either sex, and so we might enumerate the whole of the hundred and more subjects of these biographies. In no work of the kind, thus far published, has the same attention been given to female biography and portraiture. One-third of the portraits will be of illustrious women, eminent in history, literature, art or philanthropy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
In his study of Romantic naturalists and early environmentalists, Dewey W. Hall asserts that William Wordsworth and Ralph Waldo Emerson were transatlantic literary figures who were both influenced by the English naturalist Gilbert White. In Part 1, Hall examines evidence that as Romantic naturalists interested in meteorology, Wordsworth and Emerson engaged in proto-environmental activity that drew attention to the potential consequences of the locomotive's incursion into Windermere and Concord. In Part 2, Hall suggests that Wordsworth and Emerson shaped the early environmental movement through their work as poets-turned-naturalists, arguing that Wordsworth influenced Octavia Hill’s contribution to the founding of the United Kingdom’s National Trust in 1895, while Emerson inspired John Muir to spearhead the United States’ National Parks movement in 1890. Hall’s book traces the connection from White as a naturalist-turned-poet to Muir as the quintessential early environmental activist who camped in Yosemite with President Theodore Roosevelt. Throughout, Hall raises concerns about the growth of industrialization to make a persuasive case for literature's importance to the rise of environmentalism.
First published anonymously, as ‘a lady’, Jane Austen is now among the world’s most famous and highly revered authors. The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen provides wide-ranging coverage of Jane Austen’s works, reception, and legacy, with chapters that draw on the latest literary research and theory and represent foundational and authoritative scholarship as well as new approaches to an author whose works provide seemingly endless inspiration for reinterpretation, adaptation, and appropriation. The Companion provides up-to-date work by an international team of established and emerging Austen scholars and includes exciting chapters not just on Austen in her time but on her ongoing afterlife, whether in the academy and the wider world of her fans or in cinema, new media, and the commercial world. Parts within the volume explore Jane Austen in her time and within the literary canon; the literary critical and theoretical study of her novels, unpublished writing, and her correspondence; and the afterlife of her work as exemplified in film, digital humanities, and new media. In addition, the Companion devotes special attention to teaching Jane Austen.
